>Hello folks, > >I have a Windows machine running XP Pro/Home that is getting a message >intermittently when logging in. The message displays after the Agent pops >up and the user hits "enter" to login. It is, "Revocation information for >the security certificate for this site is not available. Do you want to >proceed?" If the user hits "yes", then go on as normal with the login and >can get on the network. If the user hits "view certificate", they can view >the certificate information from our CCA server and has the option to hit a >button to "install certificate", which they did only most recently, then >they can get on the network as well. At no time has the user not been able >to get on the network. We have valid certs installed, and this message >doesn't happen everytime, only sometimes. Just trying to ascertain what the >message means and why it happens when it does...I know that the Agent uses >cert information from installed browsers on a machine, but why does this >message come up on this machine and not all the others, is the question. >Why did the user get asked this one time and not all the other times that >they logged in? It seems to come and go. Cisco has provided me info on how >to make it go away, so that part is fine, but I'm looking for the "why" >part. Many thanks for any insight. >
If you are using Windows Server(s) for your trusted root cert server, go to the manager and tell it to publish revocation information. I had this exact issue and nobody could log in. For some reason the windows revocation publication stops from time to time. Dan Sichel Ponderosa Telephone
